How to stop onload play html5 video on websites?
Anyone know how stop automatic play on page load unwanted html5 videos? This is importnant for me because I use limited bandwith transfer, and that unwanted media eat my amount of limited transfer. Thank you in advance for help.
Solution 1:
- Enter
about:config
into Firefox’s address bar and press Enter. - Agree to the warning.
- Type
autoplay
into the search box. - You’ll see a preference named
media.autoplay.enabled
, which will be set toTrue
. - Double-click that preference and it will change to
False
.
Be warned that animated GIF loads normally, but doesn't play. Many times you're not aware of this, and just see an image and think that's it. This happens to me on Reddit a lot. Then you have to right-click the image and select Play
.